Miranda July is like marmite. You either love her of you hate her. Some people will look at her work, which ranges from cinema to dance and performance art, and see nothing but a frustratingly twee, exasperatingly offbeat clutter of quirkiness. However, many people see a hidden depth under the surface of July’s peculiar vision. [...]
An eye-opening exposé about the ins and outs of the sex trafficking trade in Eastern Europe, the culture that allows it and how Western government contractors have often played an immense part in this criminal activity, The Whistleblower is one of the year’s finest thrillers thus far. Rachel Weisz, in a powerhouse of a performance, [...]
How do you bring a dying genre of cinema like the western back to the multiplexes with major box office appeal? Do you attach a major Hollywood star to the lead role? Sure! Do you hire a director who has recently gained universal appeal? You could do! But when, apparently, that isn’t quite enough, how [...]
Oh, the romantic comedy. If there is a genre of cinema that has consistently made me want to vomit up my own soul, it is this one. It seems like every other week a group of tired, B-list actors gather together to spray the big screen with a shit-storm of paper-thin characters, clichéd dialogue, hollow [...]
With the death of his wife and the diagnosis of terminal cancer, Hal finally embraces a secret side of himself that he had repressed for all of his life: He is actually homosexual. At the age of 79, he at last breaks free of the shackles that have bound him for his entire life and [...]
When we write the history of this decade’s movies, it may not be David Fincher, Christopher Nolan or Paul Thomas Anderson who are remembered as the most influential figures of our generation. In fact, it may not even be a person at all! Instead, having shown more creativity, ingenuity, humanity, depth and warmth than anyone [...]
Zero Day is a daring and dangerous insight into the mind of two teenage outcasts counting down the days until they wreak havoc on their high school. Based loosely on the Columbine shootings this small scale indie flick is presented through the format of found footage. But rather than just being another schlocky camcorder capre, [...]
Despite all of the ongoing negativity of the previous TRANSFORMERS film, REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, the great and all-powerful Michael Bay has returned to bring us what is said to be the final piece in his trilogy. DARK OF THE MOON looked awfully awesome in pretty much all of its trailers. But, as I said [...]
Bridesmaids has been something of a hot topic on Napier’s News. Both Jim Napier and Jake Lane praised the movie upon the film’s US release – their reviews can be found here and here – while, with the girls finally making their way over the atlantic this week, Mal Foster tore it apart in a [...]
With jaws being torn apart, heads being beaten in, limbs being dismembered, cheeks being pierced and eyes being scorched with cigarette buds, I Saw The Devil could easily have become your typical torture porn trash. But instead, this Korean flick is worlds apart from the likes of Hostel and Saw. For example, unlike those aforementioned [...]
No story to be to told, next to nothing is new, too much is borrowed, occasionally blue. Bridesmaids which has been touted by many as the comedy of the year is incredibly over bloated, over rated and frankly not very funny at all. Let me make one thing clear before I begin, my dislike of [...]
Today was my final day of the Edinburgh Film Festival. I packed my bags, picked up my train tickets and waved goodbye to rainy Scotland and to a great festival. However, before I took that long journey back home, I did manage to catch the press screening of A Better Life, the new film from [...]
